Tags: SHOULDER PAIN
Why: Common and safe exercises for the lower back. While many exercises are advocated the majority of these are chosen because they train the trunk (i.e. core) musculature without imparting excessive stress on the spine
The Key: A commonality across these exercises is that the spine stays in neutral. There is no extension or flexion or twisting during most of these exercises.
Pictures can also be seen at McGill’s Big Three post (click here) and here for the SI Joint)
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Audience: Runners and Therapists Purpose: A quick guide to running injury prevention. This article is a lead in to an almost complete e-book that runners can use to keep healthy and improve performance. Preamble Injury prevention for runners is not rock-solidly founded in science… and may not even be possible. [...]
Audience: Patients Purpose: Below are a number of exercise videos for patients for rehabilitation. Disclaimer: Please you under the guidance of a professional. For the most part, there are no good or bad exercises. Just ill timed, inappropriate or poorly executed. With any leg training you always want to train [...]
Audience: Therapists and Patients Purpose: This post is video overview of the typical exercise progression I advocate for patients (primarily runners) who present with persistent longstanding high hamstring pain.
Audience: Therapists Purpose: Ys, Ts and Ws are common exercises for shoulder rehabilitation. A recent post by Mike Reinold has raised some concerns about performing these exercises bilaterally (click here). Mike suggests performing the exercises unilaterally as bilateral performance may lead to some unwanted form errors and may not be [...]
Audience: Patients Why: Common and safe exercises for the lower back. While many exercises are advocated the majority of these are chosen because they train the trunk (i.e. core) musculature without imparting excessive stress on the spine The Key: A commonality across these exercises is that the spine stays in [...]
Audience: For Patients Purpose: Pictures of common shoulder exercises Why: “Tendinitis”, Tendinopathy, rotator cuff strains/tears, bursitis and shoulder instability (i.e. you dislocated/subluxated) can all be accompanied by impingement (e.g. when you move your arm the top of your arm bone pinches on your shoulder blade - click here for more [...]
Audience: Therapists and Runners Purpose: quick review of a research abstract of a paper investigating the influence of running in the Nike Free on foot muscle strength and size. A research abstract (not a full paper) was published at the American Society for Biomechanics conference in 2010 by Dr. [...]
Audience: Runners and Therapists Background: Changing running form, particularly through the aid of minimalist or barefoot running, is often proposed to change the type of forces that the body experiences during running. This in turn may influence of risk for injuries. Source of information: Zadpoor et al (2011), Lieberman et [...]
Audience: Therapists and patients with too much time on their hands Purpose: Provide a mild critique of the utility of the prone hip extension test Background The prone hip extension test (or prone leg extension - PLE) is a very common clinical test in use for more than 20 [...]
Audience: Runners Purpose: To give a pictorial basic background into the movements that occur in the sagital plane (i.e. looking from the side) of the lower extremity during running at 3.1 meters/second (about a 5 minute km) and “sprinting” at 3.9 meters per second (about a 4.17 minute km).
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